Wikipedia:Wiki Ed/Vancouver Island University/HIST340: Work and Workers in Canada (Fall 2019)

This course examines how work and workers have changed in Canada in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Together we explore relations between workers and employers, the history of the labour movement (the people who brought you weekends!), industrialization, the changing culture of the working class, gender and race in the workplace, and the effect of economic change and technology on working people.

The history of working people has always been the history of the masses -- history from below. That's why I feel a Wiki assignment would fit particularly well in this class. I intend to have students write/improve articles in small groups. I have identified a few topics that are notable and in need of improvement, including key government commissions on the relations of capital and labour and on immigrant workers. There are reliable and scholarly articles and books available about these Royal Commissions, but some of them do not have articles on Wikipedia yet. This seems like an excellent opportunity for students to conduct research and contribute to the encyclopedia.

Week 2
Welcome to your Wikipedia assignment's course timeline. This page guides you through the steps you'll need to complete for your Wikipedia assignment, with links to training modules and your classmates' work spaces.

Your course has been assigned a Wikipedia Expert. You can reach them through the Get Help button at the top of this page.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 1–5
 * Evaluating Wikipedia

Create an account and join this course page, using the enrollment link your instructor sent you. (Because of Wikipedia's technical restraints, you may receive a message that you cannot create an account. To resolve this, please try again off campus or the next day.)

This week, everyone should have a Wikipedia account.

Exercise
Evaluate an article

Week 4
Choose your topic / Find your sources

What's a content gap?

History

Exercise
Add a citation

Copyedit an article

Week 6
Resource: Editing Wikipedia, pages 7–9

Everyone has begun writing their article drafts.

Week 7
Guiding framework

Every student has finished reviewing their assigned articles, making sure that every article has been reviewed.

Week 8
You probably have some feedback from other students and possibly other Wikipedians. Consider their suggestions, decide whether it makes your work more accurate and complete, and edit your draft to make those changes.

Resources:


 * Editing Wikipedia, pages 12 and 14
 * Reach out to your Wikipedia Expert if you have any questions.

Week 9
Now that you've improved your draft based on others' feedback, it's time to move your work live - to the &quot;mainspace.&quot;

Resource: Editing Wikipedia, page 13

Week 10
Continue to expand and improve your work, and format your article to match Wikipedia's tone and standards. Remember to contact your Wikipedia Expert at any time if you need further help!

Week 11
Everyone should have finished all of the work they'll do on Wikipedia, and be ready for grading.